I went out to the Flatin Farm cornfield tonight. I had an old hay baling buddy from high school that ended up doing 26 years in the Army as a Green Beret medic. Paul lives in Texas now, but he came on out there and we saw boatloads of the obvious stuff. He enjoyed three and a half hours of it until he called it quits.
I stayed for another hour and recorded Rupes Recta near lunar sunset for my Lunar II observations, but that wasn't the coolest part of the whole night.
I saw part of Mare Oriental for the very first time in my life. It was awesome! Lacus Verdi and Lacus Autumni were very obvious and I had seen them before. What I hadn't seen were the bumps of the Rook Mountains on the Moon and the dark Mare behind them — Mare Oriental! What a thrill!
Check it out if you have the chance. A favorable libration like this doesn't come around very often.
AGNFA!